Guangzhou Opera House Zaha Hadid It takes a big team… Project Director: Woody K.T. Yao, Patrik Schumacher Project Architect: Simon Yu Project Team: Jason Guo, Yang Jingwen, Long Jiang, Ta- Kang Hsu, Yi- Ching Liu, Zhi Wang, Christine Chow, Cyril Shing, Filippo Innocenti, Lourdes Sanchez, Hinki Kwong Compeition Team 1st Stage: Filippo Innocenti, Matias Musacchio, Jenny Huang, Hon Kong Chee, Markus Planteu,Paola Cattarin, Tamar Jacobs, Yael Brosilovski, Viggo Haremst, Christian Ludwig, Christina Beaumont, Lorenzo Grifantini, Flavio La Gioia, Nina Safainia, Fernando Vera, Martin Henn, Achim Gergen, Graham Modlen, Imran Mahmood 2nd Stage: Cyril Shing, YanSong Ma, Yosuke Hayano, Adriano De Gioannis, Barbara Pfenningstorff It takes a big team… Local design institute: Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute (Guangzhou, China) Structural engineers: SHTK (Shanghai, China); Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute Façade engineering: KGE Engineering (Zhuhai, China) Building Services: Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute (Guangzhou, China) Acoustic consultants: Marshall Day Acoustics (Melbourne, Australia) Theatre consultant: ENFI (Beijing, China) Lighting design consultant: Beijing Light & View (Beijing, China) Project management: Guangzhou Municipal Construction Group Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China) Construction management: Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China) Cost consultant: Guangzhou Jiancheng Engineering Costing Consultant Office Ltd. (Guangzhou, China) Principal contractor: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China) A blog you should subscribe to… http://www.archdaily.com/115949/ guangzhou-opera-house-zaha- hadid-architects/ 4,000 led lights Custom molded GFRC Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete http://www.gfrccladding.com/? &p=faq&q=110 75,422 panels of granite and glass Can you see the roof drains? Surface transformation for supply, return, and acoustic absorption A ceiling designed, not just purchased Some buckled? Connectors Panel misalignment Some struggles with ordinary things Can you see the roof drains? Careful placemaking for the ordinary The ordinary struggles to find a place .